Researching research: mathematics education in the Political

By A. Pais, P. Valero. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2012

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We discuss contemporary theories in mathematics education in order to do research on research. Our strategy consists of analysing discursively and ideologically recent key publications addressing the role of theory in mathematics education research. We examine how the field fabricates its object of research by deploying Foucault’s notion of bio-politics—mainly to address the object “learning”—and Žižek’s ideology critique—to address the object “mathematics”. These theories, which have already been used in the field to research teaching and learning, have a great potential to contribute to a reflexivity of research on its discourses and effects. Furthermore, they enable us to present a clear distinction between what has been called the sociopolitical turn in mathematics education research and what we call a positioning of mathematics education (research) practices in the Political.

Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Equity Within Mathematics Education Research as a Political Act: Moving From Choice to Intentional Collective Professional Responsibility (2017, background): “Many voices call on MERs to acknowledge power relations and the political acts in which we engage (e.g., Gutiérrez, 2013; Lerman, 2000; Martin, 2015; Pais & Valero, 2012; Valero & Zevenbergen, 2004).”
An ideology critique of the use-value of mathematics (2013, methodology): “…since many of the problems related to school mathematics cannot be fully conceptualized without some kind of “political mapping” that situates them not at the level of “learning” or “mathematics” but as part of the political and economic landscape of our times (Brown, 2011; Pais & Valero, 2012).”